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## Attaching an External Measurement Routine

The Insert | Attach Measurement Routine menu option opens the Attach External Measurement Routine dialog box. You can use this dialog box to attach a measurement routine to the current measurement routine. This does not mean that PC-DMIS actually attaches and executes all the command in the specified measurement routine. Instead, it attaches a pointer to the measurement routine, which enables you to access its dimensional and feature data. See "Using a Pointer to Reference Data".

Attach External Measurement Routine dialog box

This dialog box contains these options:

External Measurement Routine file name
Use this box to type the path for the measurement routine you are going to attach. If you prefer, you can use the Browse button (...), which also places the file name path into the box.

Equate Routine Alignments
Use this area to share alignments between two measurement routines by selecting them from the available lists. See "Equating an Alignment" in the "Creating and Using Alignments" chapter for additional information.

The Attach Measurement Routine menu option is especially useful when working in multiple arm mode. With this option, you can attach a measurement routine from the Arm2 system onto the Arm1 measurement routine. Attaching the measurement routine allows the sharing of data so that both arms can run off the same alignment, pass feature data from one measurement routine to another for calculations, and generally work in a cooperative manner. (See the "Using Multiple Arm Mode" chapter for more information on multiple arm mode.)

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Using a Pointer to Reference Data